A perfectly cromulent explanation. 

Method acting:

Kind of weird to go from spending the morning reading about how a Hawaiian town I have great memories of was literally wiped off the map in one day to this. I don’t know.  I’ve read stuff on this site I found genuinely enriching, but this is not the best AV Club mode.  

I’m absolutely certain Rob Lowe’s ego played no part whatsoever in this dynamic.  

For people “of a certain age.”  

I see “Scandoval” and I’m like, “What’s going on with Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval?” because I stopped growing as a person looong ago.  

I think the old idea that separating artist and art is some sort of concrete moral imperative is not valid for a few reasons. Just to focus on one, by publishing this list, the AV Club is essentially endorsing these albums as products, encouraging us the consumers to seek them out. In doing so, we would be putting…

Yes, celebrity culture, religion, and many other human institutions/general stuff do not hold up to scrutiny.  You accept it as wallpaper most of the time, but there those good-god-what-are-we-all-doing moments that do, in fact, define sanity.  

This is a thought provoking history I’ll have to read about in depth on my next flight to Hong Kong.

“They will kill my daughter!”

I mean, ignoring child abuse is not actually defensible, but the story hadn’t really broken. It would be a long time before there was any mainstream understanding or acknowledgement that a cornerstone of society (well, western society) was essentially a front for a global ring of pedophiles. To go from reverence for…

Big Boy DID IT! 

Mind WHAT?  I don’t read ****!  Communicate DIRECTLY!  

In society’s defense at the time, we had no way of knowing Sinead was right, or necessarily what she was talking about. Reports of sexual abuse in the Catholic church were out there, but they weren’t widespread, high profile, or taken seriously.  Sinead came off as provocative for provocative’s sake and it really…

Man, it’s been a bad week for 80s-early 90s icons whose careers were derailed by questionable scandals.  I will say Pee Wee’s Playhouse is one of those bits of culture that manages to be influential yet timelessly unique.  Seriously, there was never anything quite like that show, before or since.  RIP.  

I wouldn’t know because I die offscreen. But somehow my one comment here tells you everything you need to know about me.

So when the fuck did Russell Crowe become likeable?  

I’m cynical about Star Wars. It’s good to be cynical about Star Wars. But combining the aesthetics of Atlanta and Star Wars makes me more excited than a middle-aged man should be.

He did do a decent job.  What’s wrong with the movie is not his fault.  

I used to like her early stuff, like Borderline.  But when she got on that Papa Don’t Preach phase I tuned out.